“There is no health without mental health.”
(David Satcher)
That of mental health is now a Hot Topic, But it is still talked about too little. The World Health Organization (WHO) identifies mental well-being as an integral part of an individual’s health, and again WHO has urged making “mental health and well-being for all a global priority.”
The three-year period 2020-2022 has exploded new tensions and fears – pandemic crisis, lockdown, disruption of work patterns, economic precarity, growing demand for new skills, including digital ones – in addition to the already heavy burden of stress that characterizes every work activity. A complex “package” in which is included the shock of the war in Ukraine with its dramatic global repercussions. Working men and women have been swept up in an emotionally heavy shock wave, and there has emerged a need on the part of employees to feel less part of a transaction and more and more connected to their company, even and especially when times get tough.
It is about assessing the well-being of workers in all its dimensions, not limiting it to economic and family well-being, but also talking about mental health. The McKinsey Mental Health Institute (MHI), with a survey conducted in 15 countries around the world, has shown how psychological well-being is a critical (success) factor for companies and especially for young workers, yet psychological health struggles to be normalized in the corporate environment, despite the fact that it is widely felt and referred to as an urgent need.
Anxiety, stress, and panic attacks are just some of the conditions experienced by many workers that can originate burnout, that feeling of exhaustion that tends to alienate us from our professional role, causing a decline in performance, dissatisfaction, mood disorders to the point of escalating into serious illnesses such as depression.
Just the failure psychological well-being turns out to be among the main causes that lead people to leave their jobs. And more and more are doing so, often without already having new employment. Hence the urgent need for action to alleviate the emotional and psychological burden that conditions and is conditioned by work activity.
For us, people’s well-being is central, outside and inside the company.
That is why we decided to accompany them toward new and valuable awarenesses able to provide support in reaching their full potential, through a new collaboration with UnoBravo, Italy’s largest online psychology service and among the most attentive realities to workers’ mental health. The company, established in 2019, has been able to grasp the new needs of employees, providing them with new support, with one-to-one therapy sessions, remotely and with a guided matching system capable of identifying the most suitable therapist from the Unobravo team for each user.
A valuable partnership that is embodied in the offer of a session with Unobravo funded by Regesta after the first cognitive interview always free of charge in Unobravo.
